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Cricket

Insects

Crickets are orthopteran insects, most classified within the superfamily Grylloidea, closely related to bush crickets and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. Older classification schemes placed crickets at the family level, but contemporary authorities now group them within this broader superfamily. The common name is also used more loosely for related taxa in the suborder Ensifera, including king crickets and mole crickets, which represent separate lineages within the same larger insect group.

Facts

Classification

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Living or Extinct

Yes 3

Identification

Distinguishing Appearance

Long, whip like antennae as long as or longer than the body. 1

Comparison

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 4

Scientific Name

Gryllidae 1

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Central African Republic

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Central America

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Equatorial Guinea

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Southern Africa

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Sources

1. Gryllidae - Wikipedia

Lead paragraph
The family Gryllidae contains the subfamilies and genera which entomologists now term true crickets.
Lead paragraph [distinguishing-appearance]
Having long, whip-like antennae, they belong to the Orthopteran suborder Ensifera

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2. GBIF Species API

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3. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)

Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ47328, descriptionView the Source

4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Insecta

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 28

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 28

"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":"Arthropoda","class":"Insecta","order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Insectos","language":"ES"},{"name":"Insects","language":"EN"},{"name":"Insectes","language":"FR"},{"name":"昆虫纲","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]

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Wikidata: Cricket

Wikidata Q47328, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source

Catalogue of Life

Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeChild Taxon Of: OrthopteraView the Source

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